The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia
The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia
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燃烧的子宫：现代早期东南亚女性的重新定位
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10.5860/choice.44-3431
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2006
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B. Andaya
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“火焰子宫的公主”是介绍这项开创性研究的爪哇传说，象征着东南亚社会中与女性有关的许多模糊性。然而，尽管存在这些模糊性，东南亚男女关系的相对平等性质是主张该地区一致认同的争论的核心。资深学者芭芭拉·沃森·安达亚（Barbara Watson Andaya）的这部富有挑战性的著作考虑了这些矛盾，同时提供了一个发人深省的东南亚历史观点，重点关注女性的角色和看法。安达亚探讨了现代早期（1500-1800）的广泛主题——新宗教的引入、重大经济转变、国家控制模式的变化、精英生活方式和行为的影响——借鉴了广泛的资料，并引用了来自泰国、越南、缅甸、菲律宾和马来社会的大量例子。在此过程中，她提供了一个及时且创新的模式，让女性重新回到世界历史中。安达亚通过考虑地形如何帮助描述地理文化区域并促进性别建构的区域独特性来解决“东南亚”的问题。她研究了世界宗教在（重新）构建性别观念方面发挥的作用的程度——这个问题与东南亚社会尤其相关，因为妇女在土著仪式中经常发挥主导作用。她还考虑了长途贸易的扩张、该地区纳入全球贸易网络、经济作物和雇佣劳动的开始以及奴隶制的增加对妇女地位的影响。 《燃烧的子宫》博学、细致、通俗易懂，在内容和视角上为东南亚历史做出了重大贡献，无论是区域性还是全球性。
"The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet, despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women's roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500-1800) - the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors - drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies. In the process, she provides a timely and innovative model for putting women back into world history. Andaya approaches the problematic issue of "Southeast Asia" by considering ways in which topography helped describe a geo-cultural zone and contributed to regional distinctiveness in gender construction. She examines the degree to which world religions have been instrumental in (re)constructing conceptions of gender - an issue especially pertinent to Southeast Asian societies because of the leading role so often played by women in indigenous ritual. She also considers the effects of the expansion of long-distance trade, the incorporation of the region into a global trading network, the beginnings of cash-cropping and wage labor, and the increase in slavery on the position of women. Erudite, nuanced, and accessible, "The Flaming Womb" makes a major contribution to a Southeast Asia history that is both regional and global in content and perspective.